♪ It's like riding on the wind, and it never goes away

-You got to let go of the stuff from the past – because it just doesn't matter. The only thing that matters is what you choose to be now.


-There is nothing to learn from a lesson without pain, because you can't gain anything without sacrificing something in exchange. But when you overcome that pain and make the lesson your own, you will gain an infallible, irreplaceable, fullmetal heart.



One from Kung Fu Panda 2, one from Fullmetal Alchemist (and granted a scanlation at that, the wording may be a bit different in official English). True, they're both fandom, fiction, but the lessons are real. The heart is there.

I think, between these two quotes and things happening in my real life that only bolsters it, plus the healing balm that has been time...

I think I'll be alright.

I think I fell in love with Okamiden from the very first moment I pressed Start and the game let out an "Ooookamideenn" right before the story started.

In short, I'm not even that far in and I heart this game already~ Hopefully it'll help tons with my flagging mood.

Apologizing to anyone I missed last night. I fell asleep at 9 intending a short nap, next thing I knew it was morning. Um, oops. >_> Guess I was more tired than I thought |D;;
I also woke up with blood in the back of my throat, which is a lot less dramatic than it sounds. It just means I had another nighttime nosebleed, except backward, and agh I could swear it was still there even though I've swallowed a million times x___X;


On the plus side, I'm meeting a friend I met through ink_city today, so I'm super excited about that~

I also went clothes shopping yesterday with part of my tax refund. Everything I got was stuff I needed and had put off, except for, well, season 1 of Xena: Warrior Princess on DVD. Okay, so I allowed myself one thing of "want over need" >.> XDD And yes I've already started watching it. MAN I MISSED THIS SHOW.

Preordered the manga I mentioned last time, thanks to the help of a credit on my account Amazon gave me, that I've been saving. I can expect ZX volume 1 in the first week of April ♥


Besides that, I found some great books and some old Disney movies at various thrift stores yesterday. I'm happy~ (For books, it's The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan, a book about Harry Potter, historical fiction about Pocahontas, and Jurassic Park; movies it's Hercules, The Many Adventures of Winnie-the-Pooh, Sword in the Stone, and Robin Hood.)


I won't lie, starting this meme is the real reason behind this entry XD Gotten from saft's journal.

THE OC A DAY MEME

I'm not sure how many days mine will go, so I took out the "# of Days Edition" in the code text. >_> Anyway, I know it says OCs but I'm starting off with Jailcat because A) He's one of my favorites (god that sounds so narcissistic) and B) I've used an AU version in an original setting before. So it counts. XD

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Who has two thumbs and a brand new (used) black DS Lite? *points to self* CB does. Now at least I don't have to worry about how to get Jirachi and Pichu into my copy of SoulSilver, when I get it XD And being able to play games that use the shoulder buttons again is a nice touch.
Not to mention that since I still have my prior DS, I can now actually leave Nintendogs on in the background while I play other games.


My dragon hatchlings died :\ Sigh. Oh well, my own fault. I'll just get more eggs XD They were all commons anyway, at the very least.


There's a Sheldon Cooper at DDD now, joining our earlier Raj. I am inordinately happy about this. That and Giro's new username and icons, plus plottings for other characters. It's been a good couple of days for me, as far as LJ RP is concerned <3

...Not to say that it's been crappy for me otherwise, because it hasn't XD Just pointing out that my face is pretty much "8D" for RP.

Two days in a row of working the extra hour the mall stays open for the Christmas season, a day off, then a midday shift on Christmas Eve. I'm definitely not looking forward to the Christmas shift (or the fact that, while I have Christmas itself off because the mall will be closed, I do work the day after) I do rather like the fact that I don't have to close. In kind of a mean-spirited way I like going "See you later, suckers" when I can just outright leave at the end of my shift XD
(Especially since I close 90% of my shifts anyway. Having an early or midday shift is somewhat a rare treat)


As for Christmas itself, no plans, really. Most of my family lives too far away for visit, or are out of state already. There's one of my uncles and his brood that we saw on Thanksgiving, but since we haven't heard from them yet I don't think we're going. So as far as I know, I'll likely be spending much of Christmas online. ...Or, knowing me, asleep.


The fact that there's a Wiki article for this amuses me greatly, and I'm not sure why.


On an unrelated note, I spent much of last night getting screencaps from videos for a shared fandom with mewberries151. Technically I was doing it to get icons for a new RP journal, but I got easily distracted and started getting shots of other characters xDD Oh well. Anyway, I've still got two videos to go, which I want to get to tonight (around 11-ish or so, when I'll actually be able to get online again). And it felt good to be able to share my caps with Mew; she gives me shots for this particular series ALL. THE. TIME. because her connection handles the official website's video player a LOT better than mine does, and I really enjoy being able to give her shots in return for a change. And Kaboot, remind me to give you some of these later, I think you'll really like them~ ;D


Oh, icon reminds me. I found out that iTunes has a soundtrack up for the P&F Christmas Special, to which I say... pfft, screw them. I can make my own mp3s from it for free XD ...Sure, doing so means recording the audio off the airing I taped the other day, then uploading and editing the clips on my computer which kinda means the quality is a little "Enh", BUT IT'S FREE. And I like doing it for myself. And doesn't require any sort of converter to turn whatever-format-iTunes-uses into mp3s. So hah. Hahahahaha.

...Okay sure the only mp3 I have from the special right now is "Where Did We Go Wrong?" but it's my favorite song. Which is kinda weird since it's such a depressing one. But Phineas is so cute in it I can't really help myself.


By the way, thanks to everyone who's answered the poll (so far?). There were actually a couple of pleasant surprises in there, people who're old friends/forum-mates of mine that I honestly didn't think read my LJ anymore. So yeah, that was a nice little surprise ^^ And since most of you left comments saying this: I was just asking about readers xD Comment!fail is no biggie if you ask me because, after all, I myself fail at commenting so much |D;; So don't worry about that. Simply knowing someone reads is enough for me.


On that note though, and in the interest of avoiding further tl;dr (and the fact I can't remember anything else I wanted to mention) I'm gonna end it here. Although one more thing, hopefully I can get back into clicking over at GPX+ soon x_X I've been really fail in it lately.

...Now if I could just get that shiny Mudkip I want. >_o